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  Districts of Northern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The current pattern of local government in Northern Ireland, with 26 councils, was established in 1973 by the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 and the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 to replace the previous system established by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.
For local government purposes, Northern Ireland was previously divided into six administrative counties and two county boroughs, with various rural districts and urban districts in the counties.
Although (outside Belfast) this is the same as the number of traditional counties of Northern Ireland, the borders have been set just about as different to those of the counties as Northern Ireland's geography permits in order to ensure a fairer distribution of population.
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 Northern Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Northern Ireland has been a part of the United Kingdom since 1801 under the terms of the Act of Union, under which the Kingdom of Ireland came under the direct rule of Westminster.
Ireland was partitioned in 1921 under the terms of the Government of Ireland Act 1920 between Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland (which became the Irish Free State in 1922).
Map of Northern Ireland Northern Ireland was covered by the ice sheet for most of the last ice age and on numerous previous occasions, the legacy of which can be seen in the extensive coverage of drumlins in Counties Fermanagh, Armagh, Antrim and particularly Down.
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 List of English districts by population   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The populations are 2003 mid-year estimates from the Office for National Statistics, using the unrounded figures published by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in the Entitlement Notification Reports for Revenue Support Grants http://www.local.odpm.gov.uk/finance/0506/grant.htm.
Usage note: The areas listed are extremely varied in character, from distinct towns and cities, to slices of suburbia, to rural districts.
List of Welsh principal areas by population, List of Northern Ireland districts by population, List of Scottish council areas by population Category:Demographics of the United Kingdom Category:Geography of England English districts by population
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 Northern Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Today Northern Ireland comprises a diverse of community rivalries represented in Belfast by communities flying the tricolour of Irish republicanism or the Union Flag the symbol of their British identity while even the kerbstones in less areas get painted green-white-orange or red-white-blue depending whether a local community expresses nationalist/republican or sympathies.
A majority of both communities in Ireland approved this Agreement as did the of the Republic of Ireland who amended their constitution Bunreacht na hÉireann to replace a claim it made the territory of Northern Ireland with a of Northern Ireland's right to exist and acknowledgement of the nationalist desire for a Ireland.
Once established under the Government of Ireland Act 1920 Northern Ireland was structured geographically so to have a unionist majority unionist fears to what would happen to them forming basis for their opposition to a united which led to creation of the two states.
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 Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is a province and one of four constituent parts of the United Kingdom.
State institutions and cultural organisations in Northern Ireland, particularly those pre-dating the 1980s, often used the word "Ulster" in their title; for example, the University of Ulster, the Ulster Orchestra, Ulster Hall and Ulster Television, which changed its name to simply UTV so not to offend anyone.
Therefore, after the First World War, Ireland was partitioned in 1921 under the terms of the Government of Ireland Act 1920 between six of the nine Ulster counties in the northeast (forming Northern Ireland) and the remaining twenty-six counties of the south and west (forming Southern Ireland and became the Irish Free State in 1922).
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 List of Scottish council areas by population (2004) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of Scottish council areas by population (2004)
This is a list of council areas of Scotland ordered by population.
The populations of these Scottish council areas are mid-year estimates for 2004 from the General Register Office for Scotland[1].
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 Northern Ireland - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Although the Protestant population is the majority, the largest religious denomination is the Roman Catholic Church, followed by the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, the Church of Ireland (Episcopalian), and the Methodist Church.
However within Northern Ireland, print media which are aligned to either community (the News Letter is aligned to the unionist community while the Irish News is aligned to the nationalist community) generally use their community's preferred term.
Unionists were in a minority on the island of Ireland as a whole, but were a majority in the northern province of Ulster, and a very large majority in the counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down and Londonderry, with substantial numbers also concentrated in the nationalist-majority counties of Fermanagh and Tyrone.
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 Northern Ireland Assembly Official Report - Tuesday 18 September 2001
It should be borne in mind that district councils in Northern Ireland account for less than 5% of all public expenditure and that they are in a completely different situation from that of the unitary authorities in Scotland, which have far greater powers.
Considering the size of the population and the number of hospitals in Northern Ireland, the average waiting time for specific operations such as cataract removal, heart bypass surgery, hernia repair and knee replacements is longer than in England, Scotland or Wales.
Northern Ireland has the longest waiting lists in the United Kingdom, and the additional £13 million allocated in the past 12 months to address the problem has had little impact on halting the trend.
www.niassembly.gov.uk /record/reports/010918.htm   (17257 words)

  
 CAIN: HMSO: Cameron Report - Disturbances in Northern Ireland (1969), Chapters 1-9
Northern Ireland has a population of about one-and-a-half million people and of these about two-thirds may be described as Protestant and one third as Roman Catholic.
Even the Northern Ireland Housing Trust has found this reaction against integration in housing and in favour of segregation, powerful and something which has to be taken into account in the siting and an arrangement of their developments when these are permitted and undertaken.
Currie is a Nationalist M.P. in the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and his action was a protest against an eviction from a Council house, and the allocation of a neighbouring house to an unmarried Protestant girl.
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 Districts of Northern Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Northern Ireland is divided into 26 local government which are unitary authorities.
The system is based on the of the Macrory Report of June 1970 which presupposed the continued existence of Government of Northern Ireland to act as a regional-level authority.
For local government Northern Ireland was previously into six counties and two county boroughs with various rural districts and urban in the counties.
www.freeglossary.com /Districts_of_Northern_Ireland   (280 words)

  
 Ireland and Northern Ireland
Census of Ireland, 1871: Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns of Ireland.
Part II is a list of counties that shows the districts in each county.
It is an alphabetical listing by county of all civil parishes in Ireland and the Church of Ireland, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, and other Protestant congregations associated with that parish.
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 CAIN: Background Information on Northern Ireland Society - Religion
The figure of 84 per cent in Northern Ireland is significantly higher than the 56 per cent of people in Britain who consider themselves to belong to a Christian denomination.
In a survey carried out in 1995 by the Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey, 90 per cent of Protestants opted to remain part of the UK, compared to just 24 per cent of Catholics, while 60 per cent of Catholics were in favour of the reunification of Ireland.
On the question of constitutional identity in Northern Ireland, 76 per cent of Protestants consider themselves to be Unionists, while 54 per cent of Catholics consider themselves to be Nationalist.
cain.ulst.ac.uk /ni/religion.htm   (1537 words)

  
 The MOUT Homepage
Eventually, British Army strength in Northern Ireland grew from a mere 3,000 in August of 1969 to a high of 32,000 in 1972.
Despite the British military headquarters in Northern Ireland officially promulgating minimum force/maximum respect for the law policies through its “Yellow Card” rules of engagement, there is strong evidence suggesting that at times security forces in the field actually operated on a shoot-on-sight basis at their own initiative.
Patrols in Northern Ireland were high-profile affairs whose main function initially was to reassure public and to assert Government authority, especially in the so-called “No-Go” areas which were declared off-limits to the police by paramilitary forces in some parts of Belfast and Londonderry.
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